Remembering the Fall of Bataan

Today is the Fall of Bataan, and tomorrow is the 67th anniversary of the start of the tragic Death March.
During the past weeks, I spent some time reading several books on the defense of Bataan and Corregidor during the Second World War for my articles for Manila Times (Bataan Rising) and, God, it was very [...]

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Through the Arts

In an article in 2006 (Art not just for Art’s Sake published in Health and Lifestyle), I wrote:
“Art accomplishes rather easily, what lectures, symposia, and other conventional awareness campaigns often fail to accomplish — an overwhelming impact upon and tremendous response from the audience. For when art speaks, barriers — be they religious, linguistic or [...]

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